WTF are these teams up to? How can they spend all winter, taking LONGER than all of the other teams, failing crash tests only to emerge with a butchered version of what is in one case a three year old car. Caterham have put them to shame.

I don't think the tubs are the same. The HRT's got a much tighter arse than last year and by the looks of things, a higher bulkhead resulting in a higher nose (the front wing looks alarmingly similar though). The Marussia car also looks pretty tight at the back, and has a different frontal area.

Both HRT & Marusia remind me of those teams came and went in the late 80s early 90s with no one really noticing that they'd been there.

The on the HRT the only visible change apart from the livery which is the biggest change is a very slight change to the undercut of the side pods ad an equally small change to the nonecone apart from that it's still essentially the 2010 Dallara. No wonder why they had such trouble passing crash tests the car was basically designed around three year old tests.

The Marusia on very first glance also looks the same, closer observation reveals slight changes to the roll-hoop/air intake and he side pods. Perhaps the biggest change is the monocoque itself, visibly lower cockpit so it's definitely new. Still.. Very early 90s small team style of preparedness though. It's a shame because CFD gimmick aside this team looked exciting ahead of it's debut in 2010 but it's steadily looked more puzzling with each passing race. If they finish behind HRT again it'll truly be a shambles and at this stage there's a big chance of that happening.. A new car with zilch testing could have all manner of reliability problems.. since the HRT is basically the very same car you might expect it to prove ultimately more reliable and be more likely to pick up the freak attrition race result.

if you leave his acting as incompetent and murray-like questions and misatkes, I'd say Allen is one of the best commentator in terms of keeping the dynamic during the whole race. Something I cant say for coulthard or legard. Brunde is good in it though. Especially when he makes retrospects to what "things used to be". too bad he went to sky. I ll be itnerested to see how his ancessedor is replacer does.